blacksnake
verbEtymology From black + snake.
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To whip with a long, tapering whip.
- He said to Stanbrough, “George, you damned son-of-a-bitch, you blacksnaked my aunt with a blacksnake, and I am going to wear this out on you, ” and began striking him with the buggy whip. He struck the deceased several times ...1899, Missouri Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, page 513:
- They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.2001, Roger A. Bruns, The Damndest Radical … Ben Reitman, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 121:
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- A settler on the Muddy River was more blunt : "injuns killed a calf the other day we did em up and Blacksnaked [bullwhipped] em I ges they will know better next time made them sing Ki hi Ki hi they have ben good as little pigs since.2001, Martha C. Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 89:
- Whenever he and Bell had a row—and their rows got bigger and bitterer—the overseer went out and blacksnaked three or four slaves, for they were the only critters in the shape of man that he could abuse without a comeback.2006, Thomas A. Green, The Greenwood Library of American Folktales [Four Volumes], Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 182: